Latest Missouri Headlines
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Missouri Utility to Appeal Worker’s $10.7M Lawsuit Award
Feb 2 2017 // A Missouri-based utility said it will appeal a state judge’s award of more than $10 million to a man who said he developed permanent respiratory issues while working as a mechanic at one of the company’s...
Johnson & Johnson Loses Venue Fight for Missouri Talc Lawsuits
Feb 1 2017 // The Missouri Supreme Court has denied Johnson & Johnson’s bid to move out of a St. Louis state court thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s talc-based products can increase the risk of ovarian...
Missouri Insurance Department Returned $29M to Consumers in 2016
Feb 1 2017 // Missouri consumers and small businesses received an additional $29 million from their insurance companies in 2016, exceeding the insurance department’s previous record of $27.4 million set in 2014. The monies were...
Missouri’s POWERS Insurance and Benefits Adds Bender
Jan 26 2017 // POWERS Insurance and Benefits, headquartered in the St. Louis, Mo., area, has hired Robin Bender as a personal account manager. Bender will assist producers in acquiring new business, as well as handling the sales and...
Student Awarded $1.6M in Missouri Fraternity ‘Knockout Game’ Lawsuit
Jan 23 2017 // A former Missouri State University student who said he was the victim of a so-called “knockout game” attack outside a 2012 fraternity party has been awarded $1.63 million in damages, though he likely will only...
Reuters: Beyond Flint, Thousands of Areas in U.S. Struggle with Lead Poisoning
Jan 11 2017 // On a sunny November afternoon in St. Joseph, Missouri, birthplace of the Pony Express and death spot of Jesse James, Lauranda Mignery watched her son Kadin, 2, dig in their front yard. As he played, she scolded him for...
Missouri Expects Another Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates
Jan 9 2017 // Employers in Missouri should see a continued decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs. The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending a 4.6 percent decrease in workers’ comp insurance loss costs...
Workers’ Comp Rates in Missouri Expected to Drop Again
Dec 27 2016 // Employers in Missouri should see a continued decrease in workers’ compensation insurance costs. The Missouri Department of Insurance is recommending a 4.6 percent decrease in workers’ comp insurance loss costs...
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Missouri’s Grundy County Farmers Mutual, CFM Insurance to Merge
Dec 15 2016 // The boards of Missouri-based mutual insurance companies, CFM Insurance Inc. and Farmers Mutual Insurance Company of Grundy County, have approved a plan to merge the two companies. Pending formal approval by Missouri...
Jury: American Family Must Pay $20M in Missouri Age, Sex Discrimination Case
Dec 14 2016 // A Missouri woman who sued American Family Insurance for retaliation and age and sex discrimination has been awarded $20 million in punitive damages. Deborah Miller, 60, of Blue Springs, also was awarded $450,000 in actual...
Missouri Insurance Department Fines Zenefits $62K for Unlicensed Activity
Dec 8 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional Registration (DIFP) reported that San Francisco-based employee benefits products and services provider, Zenefits, has agreed to pay a penalty of...
2016 State Specialist P/C Insurers Revealed: Demotech
Dec 5 2016 // The Demotech Company Classification System categorizes insurers into one of 11 categories based on an analysis of data reported by companies to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The 11 categories...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Recover More Than $9M by Q3 2016
Dec 5 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance reported it recovered over $9 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies during the first nine months of 2016. In the first three quarters of 2016, the...
Missouri Dealer to Settle Gun-Shop Liability Case
Nov 23 2016 // A pawn shop that sold a gun to a mentally ill Missouri woman who used it to fatally shoot her father will settle in a wrongful death case, according to the attorney for the woman’s mother. Washington, D.C.-based...
Missouri Settles Case of Man’s Drowning While in Patrol Custody for $9M
Nov 18 2016 // The state of Missouri will pay $9 million to the family of an Iowa man who drowned after he fell out of a boat handcuffed and in an improperly secured life vest while he was in custody of a state trooper, an attorney for...
Jury Awards $37.5M to Man Paralyzed in Missouri Tractor-Trailer Crash
Nov 17 2016 // A Missouri jury has awarded a $37.5 million judgment to a man left a paraplegic after a 2014 accident involving a vehicle and a tractor-trailer. The Kansas City Star reports that the Jackson County jury sided with Steve...
Missouri Insurance Regulators Recover More Than $9M by Q3 2016
Nov 15 2016 // The Missouri Department of Insurance recovered over $9 million for consumers who filed complaints against their insurance companies during the first nine months of 2016. In the first three quarters of 2016, the Consumer...
J&J Tries to Switch to Court Outside Missouri After $195 Million in Talc Verdicts
Nov 8 2016 // After a $67.5 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson on Oct. 27 marked its third straight trial defeat in an onslaught of lawsuits claiming its talc-based products cause ovarian cancer, the company is hoping to...
Missouri Jury Hands Down Another Big Baby Powder Award – $70M
Oct 31 2016 // A St. Louis jury has awarded a California woman more than $70 million in her lawsuit alleging that years of using Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer, the latest case raising concerns about the...
